Proverbs and quotes about education.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard ShawA single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A tree, a religion, a school, and parents are judged by the fruits they produce.
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
Nicholas JohnsonAny curriculum will be pedagogically ineffective if it consists of a lecturer yammering in front of a blackboard, or a textbook that students highlight with a yellow marker. People understand concepts only when they are forced to think them through, to discuss them with others, and to use them to solve problems.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Better untaught than ill taught.
It is better not to learn something than to learn it badly.Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret MeadDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Richard DawkinsDo not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
PlatoDon't give a child a fish but show him how to fish.
Mao ZedongEducation is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaEducation is what is left after you have forgotten all you have learned.
(unknown author)Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard KeynesEverything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges ClemenceauFew things offer greater return on less investment than praise.
Bill WalshFrom the pine tree, learn of the pine tree.
From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo.
From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo.
He teaches ill, who teaches all.
A good teacher should not teach everything but let students discover some things for themselves.I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho MarxI like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
P.J. O'RourkeI was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein'.
Stephen HawkingIf you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
Mahatma GandhiIf you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Noam ChomskyIntelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward WiggamIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
AristotelesIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouIt seems ridiculous to me that people are so afraid that their children are going to miss a month of learning. How about using this month to teach them how to plant, cook, do taxes, basic first aid, handle stress, critical thinking, etc. Not all learning is done in a classroom.
Mohamad SafaJust as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander PopeKnowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.